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  • Understanding Effects on Humans of Radiation Exposure
    News - 24 Mar 2008
    A new technique for assessing the damage radiation causes to DNA indicates that the spatial arrangement of damaged sites, or lesions, is more important than the number of lesions in determining the...
  • Tax Breaks For Biofuels
    News - 24 Mar 2008
    New UK legislation coming into effect on 15 April 2008 - the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation - will mean that biofuels must show significantly smaller carbon footprints than their petroleum-based...
  • Black Carbon Has Warming Effect 3 to 4 Times Greater Than Prevailing Estimates
    News - 23 Mar 2008
    Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times...
  • The Solar Grand Plan
    News - 21 Mar 2008
    Vasilis Fthenakis, head of the National Photovoltaic Environmental Research Center at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will give a talk titled "Solar Grand...
  • Ongoing Efforts in Applying Electric Car Technology in Real World Situations
    News - 20 Mar 2008
    Subaru today announced that it would begin evaluating its R1e electric vehicle (EV) in the United States this summer. The Subaru R1e will be on display at the New York International Auto Show, from...
  • Zero-Emission Vehicles Can Avoid Health Costs From Deaths and Illnesses
    News - 20 Mar 2008
    According to a study sponsored by the American Lung Association of California, $142 billion in human health and global warming reduction benefits would result from converting the entire California...
  • EPA Awarded Grant to City to Cut Diesel Emissions from Garbage Trucks
    News - 20 Mar 2008
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has awarded a $51,840 grant to the city of Chicago for an idling reduction project to cut diesel emissions from city garbage trucks. The grant was made...
  • The 4th Largest Solar Power Facility
    News - 20 Mar 2008
    Governor Edward G. Rendell said multi-million-dollar renewable energy projects, like the solar electricity generation plant he helped break ground on today in Bucks County, reinforce...
  • Policy to Cut Carbon Emissions Could Still Result in Increased Economic Growth
    News - 19 Mar 2008
    A national policy to cut carbon emissions by as much as 40 percent over the next 20 years could still result in increased economic growth, according to an interactive website that reviews 25 of the...
  • History of Arctic Pollution
    News - 19 Mar 2008
    Scientists know that air pollution particles from mid-latitude cities migrate to the Arctic and form an ugly haze, but a new University of Utah study finds surprising evidence that polar explorers saw...

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